A friends birthday is coming up and I wish to surprise him. How do you write "Happy Birthday" in Japanese? Could you give me a guide, line by line?

Thank you. :-)

Hi, I posted a while back about going to Costa Rica and travel-blogging. I'm home now and I just wanted to share the remainder of my Costa Rica related entries in case anyone is planning on going there and needs some tips.

01. Freaking out after reading about crime in CR.
02. First few days.
03. Excursion to Puerto Viejo on the Carribean Coast
04. ( Read more... )

Hello!! I work at a call center and sometimes we get calls from people who speak korean, chinese, rusian and some other languages but these are the most usual; so, i was wondering if you guys could tell me how to ask "Would you like a (name of the language) translator?" and how to ask for a couple of minutes to get the translator? Something like, " ( Read more... )

I've been posting about my travels abroad on my personal journal and I just figured maybe someone out there in livejournal-land might be thinking about either studying abroad or traveling to Costa Rica. I'm studying at the Conversa Institute in Santa Ana (right outside the capital, San Jose). This is my second trip - the first time I stayed for one ( Read more... )

 I'm learning Japanese myself and I thought that maybe some of you guys might want to as well ( Read more... )

Hi there folks!

Having scanned back through recent entries, I think this is allowed.

Could anyone tell me how to ask an unfamiliar man (stranger), in French:

"Are you injured?"

I've seen several variations of the French translation on language forums, but the translators have specified that it was the translation when speaking either to a woman, or ( Read more... )

Hello, I thought I'd ask if anyone of Japanese-speaking people out there would like to become my e-mail penpal? I'd like a person who speaks English too (or Polish or French - I'm not THAT fluent in Japanese!), and is preferably a Japanese native speaker ( Read more... )

It's time for the next edition of "How do you say ____ in your language[s]?"!

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1. How do you say, idiomatically, that something is really easySome examples in [at least American] English: a breeze, a snap, a piece of cake ( Read more... )

Hello,

could anyone explain me the following thing:

In the sentence: It is a tool which never proves useful.

Why is "which" the only correct option in this sentence?

Thanks for your help!

I am going to start taking a college level 1 course for French in January. I'd like to get a head start on learning so I don't struggle later on.

Looking for recommendations for beginner books, cd, or dvds. Also where can I find either children books to buy or read via ebook.